AMD Has Been Working On An Open-Source GPU Debug Tool, To Be Released Soon

[chithanh]

It was a personal project that turned out to be sufficiently useful to make public; we are using it with unreleased (and hence non-public) GPUs.

I see. So without major changes in AMD's culture that such things happen in the open by default, this is not going to improve?

[geearf]

bridgman
A bit unrelated, but is there a guess as to which kernel will land hdmi audio for SI on amdgpu?

Thanks!

[bridgman]

Don't worry about open source driver support for Vega at release time (that is a given)... the only thing worth worrying about is upstream open source driver support at release time.

We still want "upstream at release" if at all possible though, and that's what we are working towards.

[Nille_kungen]

Vega can't come soon enough.

I worry about open source driver support for vega at release time but maybe they have it internally but i still think it will need DC (DAL).

[nomadewolf]

The good news keep pilling up.

[Evil Penguin]

Vega can't come soon enough.

[bridgman]

It was a personal project that turned out to be sufficiently useful to make public; we are using it with unreleased (and hence non-public) GPUs.

[chithanh]

Ah, the dreaded AMD approval process.
Seriously though, why can't AMD develop such a thing in the open from the beginning?

[bridgman]

What happened to "release early, release often"? Instead of three parties working independently on their debugging tools and duplicating work, they could have spent the months they worked in secret on them better by collaborating.

You kinda have to write it before you can release it... and it's hard to get release approval in December because a lot of key people are off on vacation.

Both tools are at very early stages anyways, although umr probably has an extra month of spare-time effort on it (Tom started writing it as a background project for his own use but it turned into something we thought was worth making public).

We had talked to "the usual suspects" about it unofficially but I think we missed Andres because he moved to Valve around the time we started work on the tool. Until yesterday I thought he knew about it from internal emails.

[duby229]

What happened to "release early, release often"? Instead of three parties working independently on their debugging tools and duplicating work, they could have spent the months they worked in secret on them better by collaborating.

Straight up words of wisdom here. Fo Sho.